Habakkuk 3:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

His brightness will be as lightning; a two-pronged lightning bolt flashing from his hand. This is the outward display of his power.

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  • Job 26:14 : 14 Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”
  • Ps 104:2 : 2 He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,
  • Prov 18:10 : 10 The name of the LORD is like a strong tower; the righteous person runs to it and is set safely on high.
  • Isa 60:19-20 : 19 The sun will no longer supply light for you by day, nor will the moon’s brightness shine on you; the LORD will be your permanent source of light– the splendor of your God will shine upon you. 20 Your sun will no longer set; your moon will not disappear; the LORD will be your permanent source of light; your time of sorrow will be over.
  • Matt 17:2 : 2 And he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 He alone possesses immortality and lives in unapproachable light, whom no human has ever seen or is able to see. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.
  • Exod 13:21 : 21 Now the LORD was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel day or night.
  • Exod 14:20 : 20 It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other the whole night.
  • Neh 9:12 : 12 You guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night to illumine for them the path they were to travel.
  • Rev 22:5 : 5 Night will be no more, and they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.
  • Rev 21:23 : 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 3God comes from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His splendor has covered the skies, the earth is full of his glory.

  • 5Plague will go before him; pestilence will march right behind him.

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    9Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

    10He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.

    11He mounted a winged angel and flew; he glided on the wings of the wind.

    12He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

    13From the brightness in front of him came coals of fire.

    14The LORD thundered from the sky; the Most High shouted loudly.

  • Ps 18:11-12
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    11He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

    12From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.

  • 2He said:A Historical Review The LORD came from Sinai and revealed himself to Israel from Seir. He appeared in splendor from Mount Paran, and came forth with ten thousand holy ones. With his right hand he gave a fiery law to them.

  • Ps 97:2-4
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    2Dark clouds surround him; equity and justice are the foundation of his throne.

    3Fire goes before him; on every side it burns up his enemies.

    4His lightning bolts light up the world; the earth sees and trembles.

  • 3Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?

  • Ps 18:8-9
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    8Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

    9He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.

  • 2From Zion, the most beautiful of all places, God has come in splendor.

  • 32With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

  • Job 41:18-19
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    18Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn.

    19Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth!

  • 6His body resembled yellow jasper, and his face had an appearance like lightning. His eyes were like blazing torches; his arms and feet had the gleam of polished bronze. His voice thundered forth like the sound of a large crowd.

  • 22From the north he comes in golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.

  • 3when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

  • Hab 3:10-11
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    10When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.

    11The sun and moon stand still in their courses; the flash of your arrows drives them away, the bright light of your lightning-quick spear.

  • 4is like the light of morning when the sun comes up, a morning in which there are no clouds. He is like the brightness after rain that produces grass from the earth.

  • 13Your arm is powerful, your hand strong, your right hand victorious.

  • 27I saw an amber glow like a fire enclosed all around from his waist up. From his waist down I saw something that looked like fire. There was a brilliant light around it,

  • 4You shine brightly and reveal your majesty, as you descend from the hills where you killed your prey.

  • 6It emerges from the distant horizon, and goes from one end of the sky to the other; nothing can escape its heat.

  • 34Acknowledge God’s power, his sovereignty over Israel, and the power he reveals in the skies!

  • 17May the firstborn of his bull bring him honor, and may his horns be those of a wild ox; with them may he gore all peoples, all the far reaches of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

  • 16He held seven stars in his right hand, and a sharp double-edged sword extended out of his mouth. His face shone like the sun shining at full strength.

  • 2He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

  • 2I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east; the sound was like that of rushing water; and the earth radiated his glory.

  • 14Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”

  • 3ג(Gimel) In fierce anger he destroyed the whole army of Israel. He withdrew his right hand as the enemy attacked. He was like a raging fire in the land of Jacob; it consumed everything around it.

  • 17For you give them splendor and strength. By your favor we are victorious.

  • 30The LORD will give a mighty shout and intervene in power, with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.

  • 12I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement.

  • 17May you give support to the one you have chosen, to the one whom you raised up for yourself!

  • 3His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.

  • 9He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.

  • 5The mountains tremble before him, the hills convulse; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all its inhabitants are laid waste.

  • 3Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.

  • 6The sky declares his justice, and all the nations see his splendor.

  • 3The Son is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

  • 3Your people willingly follow you when you go into battle. On the holy hills at sunrise the dew of your youth belongs to you.

  • 19It ranks first among the works of God, the One who made it has furnished it with a sword.